(19)
(11) EP 2 364 605 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
30.07.2014 Bulletin 2014/31

(43) Date of publication A2:
14.09.2011 Bulletin 2011/37

(21) Application number: 10157723.7

(22) Date of filing: 25.03.2010
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
A24C 5/36(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK SM TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA ME RS

(30) Priority: 11.03.2010 PL 39067710

(71) Applicant: International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. z o.o.
26-600 Radom (PL)

(72) Inventors:
  • Chojnacki, Wojciech
    26-600, Radom (PL)
  • Sieredzinski, Marek
    26-600, Radom (PL)

(74) Representative: Karcz, Katarzyna 
Przedsiebiorstwo Rzeczników Patentowych Patpol Sp. z o.o. Nowoursynowska 162J
02-776 Warszawa
02-776 Warszawa (PL)

   


(54) Method of opening cigarette covers and an assembly for opening cigarette covers in a machine for recovering tobacco from defective and/or substandard cigarettes


(57) Method of opening a cigarette wrapper including cutting open a cigarette transported in a guiding groove of a feeder of a machine for recovering tobacco from defective and/or substandard cigarettes with at least one revolving disc knife located above the feeder, in which the at least one revolving disc knife is applied to the cigarette in such a way that the axis of rotation on which the said disc knife is perpendicularly mounted lies on a plane parallel to the plane over which the cigarette axis is translated, and the plane of the disc knife does not contain the cigarette axis and is parallel to the said cigarette axis, the possibility of rotation of the cigarette around its axis in the guiding groove is blocked, whereby tensile stress is applied in the cigarette wrapper facilitating its opening.
Assembly for applying the method according to the invention.







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